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UNTTED STATES EPATENT @FFIQE.

CHARLES H. HIGBEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ANDREW J.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,520, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed April 4, 185.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HIGBEE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of burners in which annular wicks are used, and has for its object to facilitate the insertion of the said wicks into the narrow annular chambers intended for their reception in the lamps to which they are applied and to prevent them from becomingjanimedin said chambers, and these objects I effect by means of guards of thin metal, paper, or other thin flexible material applied so as to prevent the traying of the strands, as fully set forth hereinafter In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional elevation showing the mode heretofore employed for preventing the spreading or fraying of an annular lamp-wick. Fig. 2 is a section 1ll us trating my improvement. Fig. 3 1s a v ew showing one form of guard. Fig. 3% is a V ew showing another form of guard. Fig. 4. is a View showing the guard applied directly to the wick. Figs. 5 and 6 are views showing modifications. Fig. 7 is a plan of Fig. 6; Fig. 8, asectional elevation ofa lamp-burner, showing my improvements.

In that class of lamps in which annular wicks have been employed it has been common to inclose or surround the wick for a greater or less portion of its length in a me tallie casing, A, which facilitates the elevating of the wick D by the usual elevating appliances, and in order to introduce the wick with facility into the annular opening 1n the lamp intended for its reception a shortinner ring or tube, B, has been inserted within the wick and held in place bylugs, projections, or indentations, the only object of the said tube being to prevent the fraying or spreading of the wick at the lower end, which would interfere with its insertion into the narrow opening, or cause it to stick or jam therein, by the rolling or folding back of the wick on itself. The necessity of inserting the ring B calls for a agreeable manipulation of the wick, and 1t is sometimes difficult to apply. To avoid the necessity of using the said ring, I extend a (No model.)

guard around the lower end of the wick and upward in such manner as to facilitate the in sertion of the end of the wick into its opening, and at the same time generally prevent the strands from being extended or folded or rolled back on the body of the wick.

A guard adapted to accomplish the result desired may be made in different ways; but I prefer to form it ofthin flexible material, which may be readily applied and secured to the ex-,

interior of the wick, and with fingers which may be bent around the lower edge of the wick and upward to the other side. Thus the guard may consist of a strip of paper, 0, cut to form a series of \I-shaped fingers, f, and gummed at its upper edge, so that it may be pasted to the exterior of the wick, as shown in Fig. 2, and the fingers may then be bent under and into the wick D, thereby covering the lower end and confining the strands so that they will not spread in the act of inserting the wick.

I The guard instead of consisting of a strip of paper may consist of a paper disk, slit, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to permit it to be folded under the edge and to both. sides of the wick. In some instances the guard may be formed of a series of thin metal plates or fingers, f, of lead or other material, soldered to the exterior of a ring, A, as shown in Fig. 6, and capable of being bent beneath and within the wick.

Annular wicks as generally used in connection with Argand lamps are carried by the feed tubes A, Fig. 8, which are raised and lowered by a suitable lifting-wheel, J. In this class of lamps I sometimes used a fixed feeding-wick, WV, surrounding the air-tube E, and extending into or supplied from the reservoir, the guard O in such case preventing the wickstrands from spreading as the wick is raised and lowered and jamming the wick in the wickrceptacle.

To prevent the upper strands of the fixed wick from spreading when the movable wick is introduced, I paste a strip, a, of paper or other flexible material over the end of the wick D and against the side of the airtube E, which terior or serves as a guard to effect the desired purpose,

I do not claim in this application any features I 2. The combination, with'a wick, of a guard aimed ina separate application, Serial No. I consisting of a strip or sheet of thin flexible 31,229. material around the wick. and provided with I am aware that it has been proposed to apfingers extending beneath the wick and up- 0 ly paper to alamp-wick, so as to form a stiff ward, the'body of the sheet being on one side 1g or finger projecting beyond the end of the and the fingers on the other, substantially as rick and facilitating its insertion into the '1" specified; I rick-receptacle, and I do not claim, broadly, 3. The combination, with a lamp-burner pplying a stiffener of paper to the end of a provided with a receptacle for an annular 3 5 Vick. My invention is distinguished from the wick, of a wick-feeding tube and elevating me of such finger by the fact that I use a thin device, an annular wick carried thereby, and lexible sheet, folded beneath and across the a guard, a, crossing the lower edge of the wick ower end or edge of the wick, so as in no way and extending upward on both sides, substano extend the latter, the extension being obtially as described. 4 ectionable when an annular wick is" used, 4. The combination, with aburner provided Jecause it interferes with the carrying of the with an annular wick-chamber and a movable atter as far down asis desirable into the wickannular wick, of a fixed wick and a guardreceptacle. strip, a, substantially as described.

Vithont limiting myselfto any specific form In testimony whereof I have signed my name 45 or arrangement or application of guard, I to this specification in the presence of two claimsubscribing witnesses.

1. The combination, with an annular wick,

of a guard consisting of thin flexible material CHARLES B folded beneath and across the lower edge of l XVitnesses:

the wick and upward on both sides, substan- CHAS. D. PLATT,

tially as set forth. I HENRY FROMME. 

